Satish Aditya
Samastipur : Four criminals riding two motorcycles reached Tazpur Branch of State Bank of India (SBI) under Tazpur police station (PS) in
Samastipur District in North Bihar on May 19, 2021, and looted Rs 7. 70 lakh cash from the cash counter at gun point in broad daylight and escpaed unchallenged . The criminals entered the bank branch around 11 am after it opened on the day, according to police sources.
SDPO, Samastipur, Pritish Kumar, reached the bank with police force within no time after getting information and started preliminary investigation into the bank dacoity. He said the bank cashier told him that they opened the bank as usual at 10,30 am they were dealing with 11 customers. Suddenly, two armed criminals overpowered him at gun point while the rest two criminals looted cash from the counter.They assaulted the bank employees also and asked them to
remain silent.
The SDPO said that police were investigating the incident and raids are on to arrest criminals. According to Bank employees, Rs 14 lakh cash was lying under the cash counter but it was not looted as the criminals did not spot it .